Ah, it's finally here. Goth vibes✅ Gorgeous art and music direction✅ Unapologetic difficulty✅ Dracula✅ Sexyback goth witch girlfriend✅✅✅ This was the perfect game for my emo-phase, challenge-obsessed, reptilian teenage brain. I'm surprised that you didn't gush for an hour (or five) more for the amount of love that Igarashi crammed into making this game. The best part about this game is that supposedly Shanoa is fashioned from Igarashi's wife. The whole damn game is just Igarashi's masculine urge to show his affection to his wife. The fucking madlad.

One of the reasons I love OoE so much is because it took a "less is more" approach. Aria of Sorrow had so many weapons that most were unused or quickly outclassed by something new. Aria and Dawn of sorrow had so many souls that most go unused. In OoE, you have fewer glyphs, but you will want to use most of them at some point. Each glyph ends up feeling much more useful. Though, I do detest how broken the beam skeleton glyph is. It wouldn't be so bad if it were a rare drop - but you can absorb it from beam skeletons with ease. Admittedly, though, the weapon glyphs would be the bread and butter for most of the game. But since they are a stand-in for your normal weapon attacks in other games, I'm not too bothered by it. I also love how balanced equipment is! OoE is the only Castlevania game where it actually feels like stats impact your character - and the equipment tends to favor different stats depending what you choose. In most Castlevania games, you simply equip whatever armor provides the highest defense and whichever acceasories increase strength. In OoE, you can choose to wear armor that increases defense or dresses that increase intelligence. Accessories are worn depending on which stats you feel are most important, with objectively better accessories having large drawbacks. Everything in OoE felt more useful.

As strange as this sounds Shanoa is a Nun. The Order of Ecclesia is a Religious Order from likely the Orthodox Church. You start off at a Monastery which means it's a Monastic Order. This becomes more apparent in Castlevania Judgment with her wearing a Nun's Habit.

Too bad the metroidvania Castlevanias ended here, until Bloodstained came around & Drew 25.

One thing that really brings Order of Ecclesia really high for me is its music. The DS used to be loathed and mocked for its poor sound system and Order of Ecclesia really was a massive slap to the face of those who claimed you couldn't do squat with the DS, sound-wise. If Konami ever released an orchestral version of those soundtracks, I'd probably buy them in a heartbeat.

Thank you for spotlighting this fantastic game. I also remember loving the hell out of it as a teen, but I just *could not* for the life of me beat Eligor. That one boss stopped me dead in my tracks and I could never finish it.

this is the game I was looking for. because when I played bloodstained I wanted more games that were similar to it. and that's the moment I realized, Miriam is version 2 of shanoa.

While there are already a plethora of netflix castlevania reviews, reactions, analysis, etc out there, I wouldn't mind watching your take on it. It is a masterpiece after all and it should be talked about more. Plus, castlevania nocturne recently dropped and that one's fresh territory. And don't forget to add spooky noises, they tickle my reptile brain 😆

yaaay it's done~~ aww i would have liked to hear more said about the finer details of the game , like talking to the town ppl and finding the big secret in dracula's castle.....

Hey man, solid OoE video. I've been replaying it recently and you bring up some great points. I really forgot just how unforgiving this game can be just on normal, good luck if you go for hard mode. I also saw Miriam as like a Dite Rite vervion of Shanoa. I mean how could you not? Same colors, same design details, hell they both have some craziness on their backs. The more I look into this game the less and less I seem to find. Not very many people seem to talk about it unless you are or were a Castlevania fan. Its nice to see Shanoa and her game get some honest recognition in the wild. Even more so because she isn't a Belmont or even really related to them in any way. Keep on Keeping man! On a slightly related note where on earth did you find those renders of the opening cinematic? Everything I've seen is wildly compressed.

Nice videos 😊😊

This game will always be one of my favourite video games of all time... I am the morning sun, come to vanquish this horrible night.

Now if only Konami would re-release all the DS entries, but I won't hold my breath.

this was my cocomelon back then at 2010. my taught me to play this on the ds when I was 4-ish, (with cheats ofc), I may not be the age to say I loved Castlevania, but I absolutely adore everything about it, the entire gothic, dark, style stuck with me. Castlevania also made me love drawing, the three I love to play were Charlotte, Shanoa and soma ^^

The weapon/element weakness system is not something I take issue with, especially since the damage types have their own "leveling system". You can use any damage type on any enemy so long as it's not resistant, so I wouldn't say you are locked to melee set-ups.

This is my FAVOURITE Castlevania.... There, I said it...😉🇹🇹

it was great there is nothing to discuss about

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OoE have the best Dracula design and unique boss fight he freaking work in this game

While I haven't played it, this does feel like it came the closest to being a decent marriage between the classic action stage based Castlevanias & the "Search Action" (Metroidvania) titles, it may just be a tad bit short of the mark. Again, haven't played myself so I can't say for certain. But I DO feel like there is eventually going to be a Castlevania that does a perfect marriage of all the past title gameplay styles. Like I feel like it would feel rewarding if, as you play a "Belmont", they start off similar to Simon (Castlevania 1) but by the end they're doing crazy whip combat skills like Leon (Lament of Innocence), with the stage design and progression kind of reflecting that.

Beating this and symphony of the night was so god damn rewarding lol ecclesia was an amazing game to me. Indeed it was fairly hard, but had a very good story, progression, movement/attack system and all around playability/replayability.

Dudeee I have a similar experience with this game as you had with portrait of ruin…. Meaning Portrait of Ruin was my first Castlevania game and I loved the hell out of it and one day I lost the game, so when I asked for Castlevania DS I got this game and I didn’t enjoy it much as a kid, I don’t know if it was too hard or I didn’t like the vibe but for some reason this game just didn’t click with me, as I started to grow up I ended up liking this game more than the other two lol

Miram = Diet Shanoa. Couldn't agree more! But I love both games.

I'm surprised you didn't even mention "skill leveling" system in this game. Although the improvements it grants are so unnecessary and take so long to earn, that it's often better off ignored.

I love the entire franchise but OoE in many aspects is peak Castlevania, a nice blend of classic, "linear" and Metroidvania. Like you said, some areas are too linear, but sadly we all know that Konami didn't give this franchise enough budget and time to cook (most games in the GBA/DS era were being released in a yearly basis, some years had up to 3 games released!), which explains recycled enemies, assets, etc. Still, love the change of scenarios, going from a monastery to a forest to a swamp and so on, it feels like a believable world that needs to be protected by Dracula, a real adventure. I like its plot, it's one of the few in the entire franchise that makes me feel something for the characters, care about them, the combat feels amazing, hard (my main gripe with other "IGAvanias") but fair (my gripe with classicvanias, they feel artificially difficult). Sad that it was the last real mainline Castlevania, why Konami :/

bro pls make more re videos. the jill and chris ones are probably the best viedeos about re. u should make one about leon or something.

You know what would make it more useful to not have to constantly change out glyphs? Not using 2 of the same on each set all the time.

Yeah,IGA's Castlevania ended with Order of Ecclesia,bye.

Absolutely cover the fucking anime

14:31 bruh it’s a turd

It was a fun game. Still not as good as aria of sorrow.

I've just beaten this game for the first time today and GOD DAMN have i been missing out I personally think it is the better of the DS line up because i felt like the glyphs were overall better and much more demanded than the souls in the sorrow games and i also think the overall level design is MILES UPON MILES better than whatever the fuck was happening in portrait of ruin (seriously the maps in that game were so tedious and empty) I also give extra points for not being as brain dead as the other games but that's not really a big deal because my favorite game is still Symphony of the night, the most brain dead walk in the park I've ever experienced......... Still the best game though 😂

With gylph damage effectivity, i just depended on the sound it made on the certain enemy

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The way you pronounce Ecclesia sounds horrible. This game is really good tho. I beat it but barely remember it.